Re: [APML] Andromeda

["Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>]

John,
Thanks! It really looks a lot better, I'll have to give some of that a try
tomorrow. I'm getting a little tired.

I wish I could claim that Tak as my own, but it belongs to New Mexico Skies.
It was sweet and I could get used to something like that, but I'd have to
have a real mount first.  I've got a few more images I took with it to
process, then it's back to the "real" world.

Scott Hammonds

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John C. Mirtle" <spampit@shaw.ca>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Andromeda


> Scott,
>     It looked to me like there was more to the image than met the eye, and
> it was a bit too violet. So, I took the liberty of tweaking a bit - hope
you
> don't mind. I increased the green using curves until the core was a nice
> yellow colour and the purple tint was gone. The blue curves I boosted in
the
> low levels and held the highlights constant so that they didn't go too
blue.
> I then adjusted fainter curves for the overall image and increased
> saturation 15%. The image is at
> http://members.shaw.ca/jmirtle/shammonds-m31.jpg for your inspection. It
> took me under 5 minutes, but then I have done this before.... The sky is
> still pretty dark, you may be able to tweak it further. If that Tak is
> really cramping your style, I will even drive down from Canada to relieve
> you of it!
>
> That's a really nice shot!
>
> John Mirtle
> Calgary, Ab. Canada
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>
> To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:44 PM
> Subject: [APML] Andromeda
>
>
> I've been playing with this image off and on for at least a week now. It's
> time to get a second opinion.
> There may be more there, but I'm always afraid of over doing it. Maybe I
> have any way.
> http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/prime/andromeda.html
>
> This was processed using levels and curves. I then applied SGBNR very
> lightly and finally made some slight color adjustments.
> Once again, I only took one frame of this target. I didn't like what the
> negative looked like and decided not to shoot M31 again with the
Takahashi,
> now I think it was a mistake.
>
> Comments are welcome, good and bad.
> Thanks,
> Scott Hammonds
>
>
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